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Venezuela’s Opposition Vows to Fix Economy First

Winners of Sunday’s legislative elections say they will focus on improving dismal economy rather than wage battle to oust President Nicolás Maduro

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Kejal Vyas And

Anatoly Kurmanaev

Dec. 10, 2015 9:08 p.m. ET

CARACAS—Leaders of the opposition coalition that decisively won Sunday’s legislative elections in Venezuela said they would set about fixing the world’s worst-performing economy rather than wage a bruising battle to oust President Nicolás Maduro.

“This is not an assembly out for revenge, but an assembly promoting solutions for the country,” said Henrique Capriles, a prominent opposition leader who lost by a sliver to Mr. Maduro in the 2013 presidential election, in an interview. “That we leave one extreme and go to the other...